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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Miss Pricherd doing, when Tree sees her?

2. What was M'Vy's experience in the little room?

3. What does Don do over dinner?

4. What does Tree insist on at the funeral?

5. How has M'Vy changed for the funeral?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tree see when she takes off Brother Rush's gloves?

2. What does Tree learn when she sees Brother Rush after Dab's death?

3. What happens when M'Vy follows Tree into the little room?

4. Describe Brother Rush's house, when Brother Rush takes Tree and Dab there.

5. How does the narrator describe the relationship between M'Vy and Dab?

6. What does M'Vy tell Tree is wrong with Dab?

7. What does M'Vy say when Tree and Dab tell her about their experiences with Brother Rush?

8. What happens that Dab gets taken to the hospital?

9. What is Tree and M'Vy's relationship like, at the end of the book?

10. What is Tree's nightmare?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think Tree will continue to go back into the past -- and into her own childhood -- from the little room? Or was her trip back into the past just part of her growing up and becoming the person she is in the present?

Essay Topic 2

What do you think Tree's daughter would see if she were to find a little room in her own house, twenty or thirty years into the future? Will Tree tell her daughter everything, do you think, or will she be open about the things she is ashamed of?

Essay Topic 3

How does Tree change from the beginning of the book to the end? What has she learned, and how has she grown? How has her relationship with her mother changed?

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